At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.

Eternity - waste of time.

Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!