The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.