“Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?”

“Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.”

“The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.”

“[M]an has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own and other's. (p.130)”

“Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)”

“Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.”

“...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.”