What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.