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.

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

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

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.

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

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.