The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus.

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

What love lays bare in me is energy.

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions