It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.

Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers