We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'

I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.