For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.