The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

Without resistance you can do nothing

Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.

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

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.