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.

One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

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

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?