Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.