I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

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.

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

I think the best way people can connect to you is by being real

Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls

Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.

It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

I like to fish when it's not too hot.

What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.

Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.