I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.