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 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.

No one can see your visions and dreams as clearly as you can. Purpose is the key to creation manifested through vision.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.

You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here.

the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

The most important thing when you're working with greatness is to learn from it, not challenge it.

There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

Coal is my worst nightmare.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.