Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

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.

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter's waking thoughts.

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

Maybe, because all these good people loved me enough to help me, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as I felt. Maybe there was a part of me that was worthy of their love.

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.

It's easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

Satguru knows that there is no death to the disciple. Atma never dies. Even after death he continues to get direction on the path

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.