The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.