You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

We're all special cases.

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.