"Writing is the name of these two things at once: the movement of signifying production and the undoing of presence."

"The supplement is neither a plus nor a minus, neither an outside nor an inside, but the becoming-other of the sign."

"The trace is not a presence but is rather the simulacrum of a presence that dislocates, displaces, and refers beyond itself. The trace has no place, but rather the topos of its displacement is always …"

"The 'we' is always already divided."

"What can look at itself is not one; and the law of the addition of the origin to its representation, or the thing to its image, is that one plus one makes at least three."