Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.