I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes..

The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence ….

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator..

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel….

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall..

It is not inspiration; it is expiration..

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas..

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper..

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still m….

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source..

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house..

My only politics have been friendship..

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious..

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it..

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, a….

One must not mistake majority for truth..

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality..

Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail..

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed..

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying..

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation..