Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

The real magic wand is the child's own mind.

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.

Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.