I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

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

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

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.