If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

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.

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.

There is nothing outside the text

If you love everyone, you will not need to fight with enemy.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Manners form the great charm of women.

In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government,[Barack] Obama has reneged on his promises.

The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

I am part of the load not rightly balanced . . .

The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.