To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

If you can't create, you destroy.

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.