Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

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.

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.

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.

Don't feel bad if your youth cannot be joyful, but at least make it useful.

Any dog can bed down a lot of females. But only a real man can love one woman for a lifetime.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

I love this sport and I absolutely love the support you guys give me; and I will continue to do it until I can't.

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.

I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents.

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.