The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights.

The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.