If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.