A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.

While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.

Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.

I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine.