The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.