Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

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.

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

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

I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

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