In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.