I Live Absolutely Like An Oyster.

Concern For Morality Makes Every Work Of The Imagination False And Stupid.

Come, Let’s Be Calm: No One Incapable Of Restraint Was Ever A Writer.

Sometimes I Think I'm Liquefying Like An Old Camembert.

What Seems To Me The Highest And The Most Difficult Achievement Of Art Is Not To Make Us Laugh Or Cry, Or To Rouse Our Lust Or Our Anger, But To Do As Nature Does-that Is, Fill Us With Wonderment.

Be Orderly And Disciplined In Daily Life, Like A Good Bourgeois, So That I Might Be Wild And Violent In My Art.