“Don't look at Jaques as if he was a human being, he comes from another planet.”

“Johanna: What's it feel like when you dive?Jacques: It's a feeling of slipping without falling. The hardest thing is when you're at the bottom.Johanna: Why?Jacques: 'Cause you have to find a good reason to come back up... and I have a hard time finding one.”

“Paul l'a écoutée, sans ciller, sans répliquer ; son beau visage détruit est demeuré impassible. A la fin, il a seulement glissé : "Je me demandais quand tu te déciderais à me faire cet aveu. Je me demandais lequel de vous deux viendrait le faire. Ce que tu m'annonces, je le sais depuis longtemps. Je le sais depuis le jour de mon retour, depuis la seconde exacte où tu as posé ton regard sur moi. C'était sur toi, l'effroi, la honte, la gêne, et puis aussi la légèreté des femmes amoureuses. C'était immanquable.”

“To free "God" from his quotation marks would require nothing less than to free him from metaphysics, hence from the Being of beings.”

“Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.”

“Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him?”

“Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond his means, precisely because he does not speak of himself. Hence the danger of a speech that, in a sense, speaks against the one who lends himself to it. One must obtain forgiveness for every essay in theology. In all senses.”