"What is called 'objectivity,' scientificity, etc., is the price paid for the effacement of the subject or, what is the same thing, for the effacement of the text's own textual character."

"The trace is not a positive presence but the mark of an absence."

"What can look at itself is not one; and the law of the addition of the origin to its representation, or the thing to its image, is that one plus one makes at least three."

"The center is not the center."

"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."