"The limit is not an end, but a beginning."

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

"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 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 book is always already a palimpsest."