A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

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

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.