The whole damn universe has to be taken apart, brick by brick, and reconstructed.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

I am against revolutions because they always involve a return to the status quo.

Perhaps the artist is nothing more than the personification of this universal maladjustment, this universal disequilibrium.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. ~ 37

Turn over a new leaf.

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.