In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.

Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.

It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.