Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.
Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.
Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.
Don't be fooled by your own wisdom
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.