“That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.”
“If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.”
“What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?”
“Jump the well, and find the Dry. Means loss your self or prove your self.”
“To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.”
“Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things.”