« The moods are the beating heart of our connection to the world Just because it's impalpable doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just because it's subtle doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. Just because it's complicated doesn't mean it's impossible to understand. Just because the moods are all at once, and they evade us, does not mean that we will give up pursuing them. »

« What is my mood? This is all I become aware of when I extract myself from my everyday automatisms, when I come out of the "act" and lets myself go to observe what is happening in me. The problem is to observe them: it moves all the time, a state of mind, and that's probably why we say "the" states of mind. We speak in English of stream of affects: current, stream of affects. The moods are the echo in me of what I am going through, or what I have experienced, or what I have not experienced but that I would have liked to live, or what I hope to live. It's also all that keeps spinning in my head after I think: it's good, stop, stop, don't think about it anymore. In short, moods are a whole world. »

« According to a classic metaphor in humanistic psychotherapy, it is about being the chessboard rather than the pieces: not trying to play blacks against whites, positive versus negative. But understand that both are useful to us. And that, without both, there is no party, so no interest. »