I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.

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 we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no, " courage to say, "yes, " for courage counts.

Let's go commit senseless acts of science.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me."

Any reaction is better than none.

Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.

President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.

That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.