He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.

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.

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

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

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

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.