If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.