The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

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.

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.

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.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal?

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Technology adds nothing to art.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

Never bored on a hoverboard.