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When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

Writing in a strict form can surprise you.

One tends to write beyond what's needed.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.