Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

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.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Two days ago, I was trying to decide how to ask him to marry me, ” Zane whispered. “Tonight I’m trying to figure out if I can even love someone like him.

I'm not a racist or misogynist person, but I find these jokes funny, so I say them.

Say what you really want to say.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

To obey God is better than sacrifice.

I'm a pretty big clothes horse. I shop for clothes constantly. I do so much shopping. I should go to Shoppers Anonymous.