I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.