One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.

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.

There is nothing outside the text

Spend one more day in pursuit of art that only you can produce, and somewhere, someone is envying your courage to do just that.

No, I thought. No way. I love her too much. I would never do that. And then again, those two words, her voice, exploding inside my head: “Tyler, wait!

we are not here on earth to change our destiny but to fulfill it.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

He shook his head in mock sympathy. "I tell you, Sage. Sometimes I think I am the one who needs to take out the restraining order on you.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.