“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'.”
“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...”