Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

Images exist; things themselves are images... Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

You're amazing, " she whispered hoarsely.He pushed back the hair from her face. "You too.""How? All I do is let you play me like a piano."He chuckled. "You've got a great keyboard.

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results, it produces no results.

Two years were all we had, love," she whispered, "and we squandered them.

The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.