"

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene and as if by m...more

"

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

"

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

"

They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding and accord. This highest moment would now remain a...more

"

They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.

"

Out of worship and out of love he would let no one light the stove for her either, as if he would be the warmth and the fire to dry and warm her feet.

"

I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.

"

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

"

I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

"

I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people’s lips in the ...more

"

In chaos, there is fertility.

"

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

"

The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the w...more

"

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

"

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelo...more