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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 tr...more

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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 tr...more

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I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters. I can deliberately mold my message, not my voic...more

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The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

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Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very...more

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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

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As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don’t do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires. . . . And I think of Bloy’s words: “there is not...more

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Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflic...more

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If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly fri...more

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Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.

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Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from information and at the same time nothing is open t...more

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Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.