The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. – Jean Cocteau
I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul. – 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. – Jean Cocteau
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I dont mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. – Charles de Lint