If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

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.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

I think the only way to properly face doom is to be on time.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others

I get a lot of unasked for sexual confessions.

I think it's important to share emotion, feelings. Everything the words can't explain. I just want to convey what I'm feeling, thinking.

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.