Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.