I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.

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.

Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred.

Nothing succeeds like success. Kill me now.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

If you want results, they don't come for free.

The nights seem to me too long... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff. Veteran moves.

The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.