"This abdiction of life demanded of the artist is to be achieved only relatively. Most artists have retired too absolu…"

"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."

"The dream, scrutinized by scientists in various experiments, has been found to be an absolute necessity to man."

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to …"

"The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I bro…"

"My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain …"

"Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons."

"If only we could all escape from this house of incest, where we only love ourselves in the other, if only I could sav…"

"When one is pretending the entire body revolts."

"Passivity, like the passivity of India induced by religion, is destructive both to human life and to art."