Nietzsche var með þetta á hreinu

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Friedrich Nietzsche