Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.

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.

A long walk is a slow remembering of how profound and wonderful life is

Im that tree who is alone and the most greener compared to those brown forest

Make a better mousetrap and the world will know it

I wanted to be part of something bigger

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.

I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.

Feeling alone and unseen can intensify the experience of being harassed, shamed, or bullied.

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

I've never played a master thief. And I think I am one.