I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

Everything hinges on how you look at things