If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know perverse people, to be intimate with them. I never look at naive faces. I want to bite into life, and to be torn by it.