To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.