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.

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.

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.

There is nothing outside the text

She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.

Education is not limited to any age

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

Smiles are to people as sunshine is to the roses.