I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

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.

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

Who ever said that one was born just once?

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