I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).

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.

If that poem idea is in your head NOW, write it down. Right now. Or lose it. For when it's gone, it's gone forever...

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

I am passionate about informing the world about our ocean - its complexity and beauty, its value to us, and the perils that it faces.

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

Love with freedom is superior to both the freedom without love and the love without freedom!

On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life.

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

I believe what Irenaeus said - the glory of God is a human being fully alive.

I try to figure my adjusted gross income, but no matter how I figure it, it's still gross.