1. “The first problem of media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.”
2. “Beauty happens only once.”
3. “Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.”
4. “What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
5. “As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.”
6. “The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived.”
7. “The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself, and that writing is the dead part of language.”
8. “I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. that would be too ridiculous.”
9. “We are all mediators, translators.”
10. “I speak only one language, and it is not my own.”
11. “These critics organize an practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question ad above all, to moderate.”
12. “Actually when I write there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.”
13. “I love language as I love life itself!”
14. “I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.”
15. “The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.”
16. “No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.”
17. “One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.”
18. “Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.”
19. “Surviving – that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.”
20. “My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.”
21. “If I only did what I can do, I wouldn’t do anything.”
22. “The circle of the return to birth can remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life and a wound.”
23. “Beyond the touchline there is nothing.”
24. “If things were simple, word would have gotten around.”
25. “Survival is the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.”
26. “I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.”
27. “Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.”
28. “Certain readers resented m when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.”
29. “I rightly pass for an atheist.”
30. “I believe in the value. of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.”
