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We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")

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Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

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But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year, with the right to return as soon as it...more

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If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

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Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution....more

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Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

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The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

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True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels,...more

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Let my notes, like the most sensitive seismograph, record the curve of even the most insignificant vibrations of my brain: for it is precisely such vi...more