The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

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.

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

The cinema is death at work.