I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
From Jean Cocteau
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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