"A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the mome…"

"No, I have already said it elsewhere. This earth has had all the exoticism washed out of it. If in a hundred years we…"

"A mind of a certain size can feel only exasperation toward a city. Nothing can drive me more fully into despair. The …"

"You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important."

"In my night, I besiege my King. I rise up steadily and I wring his neck. He regathers his strength, I come back at hi…"

"It is preferable not to travel with a dead man."

"I started publishing small poetry plaquettes. They were about 200 copies. Then I went up to 2 thousand and now I have…"

"Henry Michaux has been very important for me, with his Voyage en Grande Garabagne. Michaux was considered a poet but …"

"Non, La Harpe au Serpent n'a jamais ressemble; Le Serpent siffle, et La Harpe est sifflé."

"Chloé, belle et poète, a deux petits travers: Elle fait son visage et ne fait pas ses vers."