Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.