Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

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

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

It is not inspiration; it is expiration.