There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

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.

Without resistance you can do nothing

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Art is science in the flesh.