Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.

I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going.

If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd And watched with zealous care No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand - Contempt is Failure's share!

I'm not defending what Cory Booker said. I'm saying I understand why he has to kiss the asses of the rich people on Wall Street, because there's no other way to keep his city afloat.

Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.

The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!

To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.