These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

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.

To hate others is ugly.To hate yourself is uglier.

I am a diamond But people see me as goldHonestly, I wanna be silver

Fiction is but a moment of bliss that takes the pain away...Like a cookie for the soul...

The essence of education is the education of the body.

When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.

One last toast, to our friend, Owen Hart. We'll never forget you, buddy.

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.

If you are having fun on screen, it shows.

I realized pretty quickly just how big and aggressive some of the mountains were down in Nagano Prefecture.