The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.