Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.