The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapi….

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead..

When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos about him an order which ….

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object..

I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I….

The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection ….

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician..

Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and rel….

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur..

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure..

It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'.

The world is the mirror of myself dying..

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way..

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same s….

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race..

Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others..

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind..

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely i….

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned ….

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time..