“You’re not going to find many traditional judges who can lead you any longer, since they now wander helplessly, bemused by the willful ignorance of that bizarre twentieth-century organism, the intellectual. You’re going to have to make the crucial judgments yourselves.”— Tom Wolfe, amazon.com
“Once the Author is gone, the claim to 'decipher' a text becomes quite useless. To give an Author to a text is to impose upon that text a stop clause, to furnish it with a final signification, to close the writing.”— Roland Barthes, tbook.constantvzw.org
“Although everybody started his life by inserting himself into the human world through action and speech, nobody is the author or producer of his own life story... Somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense of the word, namely, its actor and sufferer, but nobody is its author.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com