Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. Opium (1929)
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard. Opium (1929)
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. Opium (1929)
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. … The craving for opium can be endured in a car. Opium (1929)