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

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.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.