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

I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

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

Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation