Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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.
All writing is filth.
Everything is going badly because at this moment the morbid conscience has an essential interest in not recovering from its own sickness.
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.
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
The actor is an athlete of the heart.
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this – I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.