As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression of consciousness. As my body acquired muscle, and in turn strength, there was gradually born within me a tendency towards the positive acceptance of pain, and my interest in physical suffering deepened.

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority

It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.