Exuberance is better than taste.

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.