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

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.

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

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

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!

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

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.