An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. - Jean Cocteau

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. … The craving for opium can be endured in a car.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand … We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.