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

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.

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 I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

I remind myself how people with a low propensity for success whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success.

A woman never thoroughly cares for herlover until he has ceased to care for her

Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera.

We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

I still deliver like a midwife

An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.