When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.

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.

Just by writing this story, I thought that I am the real monster, I had the feeling that I am doing it.... it was just awful!

If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.

Hawaiis own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.

Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?

You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life.

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.