The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.On Photography

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams