The best technique is none at all.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

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

What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.

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

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.