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.

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

All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say that they are at least false. As you know, one of the principal things at stake in what is called in my texts 'deconstruction', is precisely the delimiting of ontology and above all of the third-person present indicative: S is P.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).