He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.