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.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

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

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.

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

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.