Who said “It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its…”?

“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!”

“Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.”

“Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.”

“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.”

“The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.”

“Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”

“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.”

“Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.”

“So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.”

“When we speak the word ''life,'' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.”

“There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.”