Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

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

Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.