Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.