The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.