A picture is never anything but its own plural description.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

...language is never innocent.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

Freemasonry is a spiritual practice that good men of every spiritual practice can agree upon.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

All my favorite movies are American movies since I was a kid.

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

In the end, the country is going the say, You know, whatever [Donald] Trump's weaknesses may be, he's a sincere guy trying very hard to get this country back on the right track.