« We're not going to run or leave in time. Like love at first sight and the jackpot, lightning comes when you think about it the least. The right time or the wrong door. Maktoub! Chance is a great novelist said Balzac, who knew about it. A child who plays dice is not ordered. »

« You can live in a republic, and take advantage of the windfall, without behaving like a Republican. It's even the most common. And bad omen. A republic of stucco and paper, delivered to the impersonal mechanisms of the rule of law, without a citizen to keep the spirit alive, is a house of cards. A breath can prevail. »

« Taoist China of the 'qigong', the art of breath and gymnastic practices, breathing and meditation, is going on great stories: its mythology is poor, but its calendar is dense, its space, carefully marked, and its rituals harmonious and sophisticated. The cultures that have given a good quarter of humanity a mental and material foundation have not been concerned with giving meaning to the world, but with balance, and this quarter does not seem to be doing too badly. The harmony of Heaven and Earth, with good management of the uncertain and fluctuating relationships that unite them, does not necessarily require a fable. »