A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.