If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater.

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.

Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.