The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

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Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

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All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.

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The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

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To survive, you must tell stories.

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