I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

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.

Love is a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.

Despite the rain, it's still raining here at Old Trafford.

By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.