The Book of Jean Genet: Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

The Book of Jean Genet: A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur,
and dreaming is nursed in darkness

The Book of Jean Genet: To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

The Book of Jean Genet: When I got to the street, I walked boldly.

The Book of Jean Genet: If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side

The Book of Jean Genet: in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.

The Book of Jean Genet: beauty is the projection of ugliness

The Book of Jean Genet: to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist,

The Book of Jean Genet: that is how I see the end of the world.

The Book of Jean Genet: on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers,

The Book of Jean Genet: I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her