“The world is absurd. Ugly absurd. To repair ugly absurdity, you can't just be normal. You need an alternative absurdity. A beautiful absurdity. We call it 'divine madness'.”

“All that can be cherished from this world, all that makes life worth living is that which is mined from its bowels through your own toil, fashioned from its clay by your own craft, fired in the kiln of your heart. Oh, how precious, how delightful a feast, the life that has been forged by its own master!”

“We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.”

“Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.”

“The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.”

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poemsto the absurdity of not writing poems.”

“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...”