The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.

And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, wiht a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. - Sal Paradise

I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.

I felt free and therefore I was free.