A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

Develop your legitimate strangeness.

How can we live without the unknown before us?

What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.

Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.

...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love with a red host!

I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.

Excellent. They were flammable.

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

Not in the swing of things but what I really mean is not in the swing of things yet

Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.

Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time.

I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria's Secret. There would be no Dior.