The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.

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

Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

The artist must know how far to go too far.

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.