The photographic image... is a message without a code.

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.

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.

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If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.

In the crowd of a million people I'll find my valentine, and then I'll climb the highest steeple and tell the world he's mine.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

I eat well, and I exercise.

We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.

Death cannot kill that which does not die.