The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.

Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.