If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end.

People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be forgiven. It is not the departure for pleasure that is unacceptable, it is waking up happy.

[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first text one writes is neither written for others, nor because one is what one is: one writes to become other than what one is. One tries to modify one's way of being through the act of writing.

At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.