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.

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.

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

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.

The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.

Once one’s vision changes to, ‘I don’t have a sofa in my house’, he will purchase the sofa with a loan and pay 1.5% interest on it. One should first make a note of how much is the ‘necessity’.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.

Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

You have got to have an agent. Its a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

Never let anyone tell you that something is impossible.

gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)