Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.

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

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

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.