You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

Wine transforms moles into eagles.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.