"I suffered at the time from an ugliness I no longer find on my childhood face."

“So long as we were in a room in a brothel, we belonged to our fantasies, but once having exposed them, we're now tied up with human beings, tied to you and forced to go on with this adventure according to the laws of visibility.”

“But I would adore that thief who is my mother.”

“The Day the Palestinians become institutionalized, I will no longer be on their side.”

“Fierce and pure, I was the theater of a fairyland restored to life.”

“To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.”

“Yet, what is their violence compared to mine, which was to accept theirs, to make it mine, to wish it for myself, to intercept it, to utilize it, to force it upon myself, to know it, to premeditate it, to discern and assume its perils? But what was mine, willed and necessary for my defense, my toughness, my rigor, compared to the violence they underwent like a malediction, risen from an inner fire simultaneously with an outer light which sets them ablaze and illuminates us?”