“In one ear the anthropologist (daughter): how are you? meaning: stay alive. In the other the artist (mother): I don't know. meaning: prepare to die, and transmit.”

“Numeration comes from 1 and 2, not 0 and 1. The 2 is silence, unanswerable without the 1. How: a means. Are: exist. You: subject, other?”

“this responsibility for the death of my (m)other, is a significance so irreducible that it is from it that the meaning ofdeath may be understood. Responsibility here is no dictate but all the gravity of love of the neighbour upon which the congenital meaning of that word loverests and which every literary form of its sublimation or profanation(I, je, eu) presupposes.”

“A mother is the unmemntioable boundarythat can never come fully clear.”

“There were cries, screech , it weep.The rest weep from we, who emerge.There was one wall of weeping. And we have parted with you.”

“To know any thing, time must go backward.”

“When there was no one left, it became nowhere. There were no more letters after the w.”