"The secret is the condition of possibility for communication."

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

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

"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."

"The concept of 'man' is a European invention."