I am a collection of the family's body parts.

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

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

A brilliant liar; he has total recall.

There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered.

It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.

Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.