“Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”

“The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.”

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”

“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”

“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ”

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”