Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

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

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

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

Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.

To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.