A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

[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 form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.

I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.