If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.