We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.