“We know that a text does not consist of a line of words, releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God), but is a space of many dimensions, in which are wedded and contested various kinds of writing, no one of which is original: the text is a tissue of citations, resulting from the thousand sources of culture.”
More from Roland Barthes
“...He is in love: he creates meaning, always and everywhere, out of nothing...”
“Am I in love?—yes,since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play…”
“I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds;…”
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead…”