The necessary condition for an image is sight.

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.

Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school.

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

I'm a bad Jew, a bad Russian, a bad everything.

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.