Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

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.

Magic is magic as long as humans can explain it logically!

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.

You cannot know what you cannot feel.

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.

They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.

We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.

[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.

If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.