Jean Genet said this quote

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

~ Jean Genet

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

~ Jean Genet

I want to fulfill myself in one of the rarest of destinies. I have only a dim notion of what it 
will be. I want it to have not a graceful curve slightly bent toward evening but a hitherto unseen beauty 
lovely because of the danger which works away at it overwhelms it undermines it. Oh let me be only utter
 beauty I shall go quickly or slowly but I shall dare what must be dared. I shall destroy appearances the 
casings will burn away and one evening I shall appear there in the palm of your hand quiet and pure like a
 glass statuette. You will see me. Round about me there will be nothing left.

~ Jean Genet

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

~ Jean Genet