More than machinery, we need humanity.

I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.

As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.