Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences.