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

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

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

I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.

Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.

The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.