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

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

May the devil himself splatter you with dung.

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.