“There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter.”

“There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.”

“You can get there from here, though there's no going home.Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been."Theories of Time and Space”

“While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, although we know that they lead us to the abyss, which, as it happens, is the only place where the antidote can be found.”

“As far as Aricimboldi was concerned, Isou was a 'Romanian fuck-stick.”

“I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.”

“These days there's no time to be bored, happiness has vanished somewhere in the world, and all that's left is dismay.”