At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.

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.

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

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

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo