"The future can only be anticipated in the form of an absolute danger. It is that which breaks absolutely with the present and cannot be anticipated."

"A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game."

"To speak of a 'proper' meaning is always to betray the text."

"The subject is always already a trace."

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