Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?

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.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

A humble person is more likely to be self confident... a person with real humility knows how much they are loved.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

I hammered him with my fists. He just stood and took it. He didn't suffer graciously, he looked pissed off to no end. But he let me hit him. And he didn't hit me back.

I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.

Keeping technology at the forefront, we need to further speed up our defence programme & keep pace with the world.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.