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.
Jacques DerridaI do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
Jacques DerridaActually, 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.
Jacques DerridaThe circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
Jacques Derrida