No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

There is nothing outside the text

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.