“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”

“When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.”

“Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.”

“A little too much is just enough for me.”

“I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love”

“When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.”

“I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.”