And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.

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

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.