The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...

The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. In the morning mist, hazy and amorous, London was delirious. London squinted as it floated along, milky pink, without caring where it was going.