“Actors die so loud.”
“Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?”
“The world is the mirror of myself dying.”
“Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.”
“The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.”
“Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.”
“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.”
“Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.”
“Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.”
“Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.”
“The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.”
“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.”
“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”
“Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.”
“The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.”
“In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.”
“What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.”
“One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.”
“Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.”
“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
“Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.”
“Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.”
“Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”
“An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
“You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.”
“Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.”
“If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.”
“What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.”
“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.”
“It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.”