The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

Art is science in the flesh.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

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.