Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.

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.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

When we are at ease, our bodies work efficiently, our minds settle, and space opens up for us to connect to our intuition, creativity, and sense of connectedness.