Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses, take the lifeless mass of humanity and by the fever and ferment with which they imbue it turn this soggy dough into bread and the bread into wine and the wine into song.

When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .