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

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

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

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

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

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