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

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.

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.

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.

He doesn't need to be reminded you're great.

Hey Highbrow. Next time remember to tuck and roll.

In many homes, technology meant to illuminate the mind ends up only illuminating the living room.

Interns, unite: you have nothing to lose but your unpaid positions!

I'd meet a new filmmaker that I'd always loved, and I'd think, "Great! I'm in the right place." It's a weird way to look at it, but I don't care as long as I'm able to make stuff that I want to make.

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.

Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.