I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.

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.

To wonder is to be wise.

The greatest wisdom is to be happy

Time is money, but money isn't time

If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously.

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.

We are creatures like everything else in our world.

Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God. Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God. Beloved are Israel, for unto them was given the desirable Torah