I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

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.

It's too cold outside for angels to fly.

Don't look for the devil outside, look inside and exorcise yourself

The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

I'll watch a Keanu Reeves movie and I'll go, 'Wow, he's really not a very good actor!'

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.

...sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing atthe right time to the right person, that too-raresensation of having the right thing to say and believing it.

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.