Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

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

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

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

..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse thereafter was to water and tend it; that propagation was a fiction; consequently, society was a fiction too; that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.

Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.

I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.