I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.

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.

May God give you much grace for every great work.

My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.

You're reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.

If we focus on ourselves alone, we run our nation down.

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

After filming, I cant wait to shake off all that 50s primness. Ill go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - its dead important.

Everyday do something in relation to everything that's important to you.

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.