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.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.

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

The cinema is death at work.

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

Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.