The trouble about the Académie is that by the time they get around to electing us to a seat, we really need a bed. - Jean Cocteau

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism.... The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.