...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing..

Even the idiot may have a message for us.

Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my thoughts, have me for y….

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death..

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetu….

Often, when following the trail which meanders over the hills, I pull myself up in an effort to encompass the glory and the grandeur which envelops t….

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon..

The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being..

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, ….

I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness,….

All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being ….

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation..

Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions, ….

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient..

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no ….

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), ….

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a ….

At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds..

The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate wi….

Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to b….

The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those whom I never get anywh….