Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

You have to know how to disappear.

The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.