Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.