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

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

“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.”

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

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

“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”

“What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.”