The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.

The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.