Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

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.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.