Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

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.

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.

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.

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

People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.

Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.