He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole 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.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

Start looking at the glass as half full and not half empty, a positive life is secondary to you being positive.

We write to rekindle the inner spirit.

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give a different perspective.

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2

Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.