I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed to be, recapturing, so that I may hurl myself into them as into dark pits, those moments when I strayed through the trap-ridden compartments of a subterranean sky

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.