In order to write all a man needs is paper and a pencil. Furthermore, when a thing
has been written, it is written forever. When it is printed, nothing can stop it from being printed again and again if the thing wants to be printed again and again. I must therefore be a writer.
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
One day in the afternoon of the world, glum deathwill come and sit in you...
I don't like to see kids throw away their truth just because it isn't worth a dime in the open market.
The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.
Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough....
I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of one man...
The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.