What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown.

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.