Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.