I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.

the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.

I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.