To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.

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.

I love all Scarlett Avery's books. This one included. - Kathleen

How old did you have to be before you learned the difference between the simulacrum of love and the reality?

You can't control the things that happen to you, but you can control the way you feel about them.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.

My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time

Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.

In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.

My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.