Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

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.

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.

There is nothing outside the text

You can buy knowledge but not wisdom.

Splendor was the decree of the day.

She is mine.' Edward’s low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. 'I didn’t say I would fight fair.

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

If you want to find guys with small penises, go to the Hummer dealership.

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

Dreams are only the image of outward things shown on an inward mirror. But the mirror is the soul's enclosing darkness.

Nature engenders the science of painting