You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Develop an Interest in Life as you see it.

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.