Literature is the question minus the answer.

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.

It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.

Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.

Unsuccessful headlines were not written without a strong appeal, but it was the wrong appeal for that product and that audience.

I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of songwriting.

Rock music will never die. We all know that.

It's hard to make progress with grief.

I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.

People don't really absorb everything they read or hear. They just look at it quickly, and then they choose to remember what they want to remember.