No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

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.

I don’t talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.

Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I hate the whole concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable!

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

I feel much more respected in Europe than I do in the States from the press and from the people. Americans expect me to win every match I play.

Jesus did not ask us to believe that his death was a blood sacrifice, that he was going to die for our sins.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.