It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

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.

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?

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