Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not need morals, it needs beer... The souls of men have been fed with indigestibles, but the soul could make use of beer.

It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.

Even the idiot may have a message for us