I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.