"The subject is not a substance but an effect of différance."

"The lie is the future, one may venture to say [...]. To tell the truth is, on the contrary, to say what is or what will have been and it would instead prefer the past."

"We must begin wherever we are and the thought of the trace, which is not a concept, is already inscribed in the text."

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

"What is proper to language is to be improper."