I never lose sight of the whole. An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, stained, crumpled.

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.

How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.

Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

We are dancing on our irony as upon the top of glowing sparks.

Человек, который никуда не спешит, никуда не попадает.

Our dreams wrapped in desire let us fly high enough to get the reward.

The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business.

Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

Impossible is possible if you put your mind into it and don't give up.

I don't build championship teams, I build championship boys.

But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

Excuses are like rear ends. Everybody has one and they stink.