These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

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.

She loves the smell of his fur, all warm and musky and cat-spit clean.

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up

If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts.

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the beautiful.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

Young kids out here see what's on TV and feel like they can start rapping. They think rappers are rich and really have their own jets and Bentleys, but in lot of cases that stuff is rented.

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.