Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

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

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.