The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.

Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

Tears fall in my heart As tears fall on the town.

La musique avant toute chose.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.

I’d been so caught up in surviving and staying free, that I'd forgotten that freedom was a state of mind.

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.

I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.

My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent.

Do not be a magician - be magic!

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

We all want to do the will of God, and we know that there is nothing nearer to His heart than the evangelization of the world.