I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

I'm more cautious about what I write.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.