Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

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

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.