“It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.”

The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.

Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: ‘OK, OK, let’s go on to something else.’ Objections have never contributed anything.

What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.

My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.

The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

According to Beckett’s or Kafka’s law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.

In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.

A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.

The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?

I’ve changed the way I look a bit but not intentionally. I’ve cut my hair. I’ve got a bit of pink in it and lately I’ve become a bit monochrome, wearing a lot of black and white.

You can’t change the music of your soul.

The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That’s the question to be worried about.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.

What if we are never the same after this. That’s the plan.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

It’s better to fight because if you don’t fight, you can’t win. Besides, even when you don’t win, you can change the game.