The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

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.

anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody

Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.

We are searching for the most humble man on the planet so that we can award him with a great honor but we are having trouble finding the guy.

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.

I could play Arab roles, even German roles, Italian roles because I had that look.

We are all a little crazy.

My body may have been abused, but it certainly hasn't been neglected.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.