No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.

Actors are athletes of the heart.