As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.

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.

If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.

But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.

Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.

The power of our subconscious thoughts and desires attracts good luck.

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.

Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that.

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.

Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

Nature abhors the old.