"Every discourse is a hostage to its own rhetoric."

"Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can be cited, put in quotation marks; in so doing, it can break with ever…"

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

"The event is always singular, unrepeatable."

"The book is not only the object that is read, but the very activity of reading."