To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

Cooking is revolution and creation.

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.