 Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. |
| Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. |
| Actors die so loud. |
| The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself. |
| In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. |
| Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. |
| Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine. |
| I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. |
| There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. |
| I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. |
| In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. |
| When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. |
| Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. |
| Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. |
| The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. |
| Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets. |
| If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. |
| Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. |
| The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. |
| Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. |
