Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.