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.

One must not mistake majority for truth.

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.