Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. Language is a skin; I rub my language against another language.

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.

Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage.

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

Anything that isn't writing is easy

In your 20s, you feel like you're indestructible...In your 30s, you think...I'll be around here a little longer, so I'm going to take better care of myself.

You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.

The only person to blame is the person making up the bullshit.

Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.

Books can be terrible snobs.

The earth is enjoyed by heroes