Nature is only another chimera.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

True poetry is embarrassing.

The beautiful must be incongruous.