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

We are all mediators, translators.

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

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

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.

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

That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break.