Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.