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

I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.