Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

When you change the way you feel, it changes the way you think. When you change the way you think, you change the way you deal with everything in life.

When the lost doesn’t want to be found, he cannot be regarded as the lost!

If you're on the merry-go-round you have to go round.

His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.

Hiding is for amateurs.

The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so.

I've lost a lot of jobs because I was too pretty. And everybody's like "Oh, poor you." But seriously, you don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.

Advertising becomes a dialogue that becomes an invitation to a relationship.

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

Yes, My Lord."-Sebastian Michaelis