Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.