The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

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.

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

There is nothing outside the text

Find your passion and fulfill it.

Evolve? Like a Pokemon?' I have no idea why I say this. I think I'm kind of going into shock, and the first thing that pops into my head when he says evolve is Charmander evolving into Charizard.

To continue holding on to your grudges is to keep feeding your pain.

A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.

There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.

I'd rather just stay quiet and play the game. Winning is hard enough as it is.