Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.