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

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

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.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model... With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.