Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?