A little too much is just enough for me.

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.