Where you are tender, you speak your plural.

The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

Why is it better to last than to burn?

Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.