Jacques Derrida

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their remote or TiVo. Parents are responsible or they are not.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.