We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.