What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

I am the soul in limbo.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

I still live. Pretty.

Pine nuts pound for pound are more expensive than most varieties of smoked salmon. There I said it.

Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.

I'm sorry that you're still hurting.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

Sometimes things happen that you never thought would. Sometimes you're just blessed

If you have a dream, chase it no matter what it takes.

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

Most of us, when asked to gauge the richness of our lives, think immediately of people. Those who have cried with us, laughed with us, and shaped who we are.

Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.