It is not inspiration; it is expiration.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.