There is nothing outside of the text. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.]

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.

Revived spirit, restored strength.

Some have brains, and some haven't, and there it is.

I don't believe in ever putting a dog down for behavior issues, because that's just punishing the dog for something wrong that humans did.

There's just no substitute for the truth.

The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

You have always been deciding the truth of your life. It is how you decide to feel about it. There is no need to try to work out what something means. You decide what it means.

Donald Trump connected in ways with people no one else did.

I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.