“Today, I refuse to be pinned down to an identity. Right away, I want to betray it.”

“this was passed towriting and the content of a writing burned can no longer behanded back to memory, for writing abolishes memory and as whatwas written can no longer be passed down, it has no Author in the oldsense: no ability to act as proxy to, to verify on behalf of.”

“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.”

“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.”

“People who are making sense are just making me laugh, is all.”

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

“Some people come from nowhere.”