The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other.

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 report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.”― Bob Proctor

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

I've been talking to Martina [Hingis] about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.

With all my capacity I encourage you to discover who you really are. . . . I urge you to discern through the Spirit your divinely given capacities.

If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.

I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!