In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself

I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking.

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.