The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.