Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

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