I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.

If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.