"I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me."
"If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care."
"There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism."
"No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists."
"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
