Beyond the touchline there is nothing.

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.

We cannot change the wind, we can only adjust our sails.

If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago.

That's our job - to strap rockets onto everything.

I honestly in a lot of ways don't want to sing about my real life, because that's private.

I'm not like a performer type.

Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk.

be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be

Being in Hollywood and having a love for Christ, is hard.

Young, gifted, and destitute.

Live as if you were living already for the second time.