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.

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.

You can’t do everything for everyone, not even for yourself. It’s okay to ask for help when you need it.

It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one can gain mastery over them so that they do not take the upper hand.

The present is the symbol and vehicle of the future.

Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal.

A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional.

Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.

The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them