I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

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.

Beauty lies in the LIES of the beholder!

No man can outrun Logic or Time.

Heat madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

On November 7, 2006, Cafferty called Donald Rumsfeld "an obnoxious jerk and war criminal".

Mark my words, my rap career [is] on the rise.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.

I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers.