Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.

Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

I don't take drugs: I am drugs.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.