Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.

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

The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.