Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

The complex develops out of the simple.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.