I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.

Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.