Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses - places where statements that seem to obey all the language's rules are nevertheless impossible to deal with.

Every love story is a ghost story.

Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.

My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.

Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers.

K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.