Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.

Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

Who ever said that one was born just once?