I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the positive, or positions, and affirmations. I think that deconstruction is affirmative rather than questioning: this affirmation goes through some radical questioning, but it is not questioning in the field of analysis.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement

I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.

I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.

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.