Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Just another four-letter word.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.