…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.

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.

Faith is believe.

...a broken nation, under siege, divisible, without liberty and injustice for a lot...

Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route.

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

Student is #1. If a student comes to me and needs an hour after class of my time, I am going to give him everything without hesitation.

Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!

I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport

You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world.

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.