The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.

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.

The only difference between me and a famous writer is that I do not want to be famous.

The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, see what’s there for us and then we prepare to relocate into it!

Be careful of the friends you frequently expose your mind to, because they could succeed in realigning the direction of your life.

The service [Jesus] gave to humanity was given even when we least merited that sacrifice. There is a joy in service that transcends emotional temporariness.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.