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

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

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

Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

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