When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

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

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

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.