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

I have never sought the reason why I write.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

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

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.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.