I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry

- Jean-Claude Izzo

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

- Jean-Claude Izzo

Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to…

- Jean-Claude Izzo

I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the w…

- Jean-Claude Izzo

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despai…

- Jean-Claude Izzo

Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.

- Jean-Claude Izzo