Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

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.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

I can find something beautiful in everyone

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

The hard part about SNL is, there's no real communication when you get there. It's not like people are mean to you, they just act like you're not there.

I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.

All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).

I am breathing. That's how I'm staying alive!

I fight not for myself, I fight for the audience.