An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.

People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.