... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!

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.