The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

It is not peace we seek but meaning.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.