Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.
I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.
There is nothing outside the text
We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes. It's always been there, you just look at people's reactions, and when the good guys are skunks, those parts stick with us.
Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.
Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.
Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
Poetry is always in transformation. There are certain aspects of contemporary Italian poetry that are very preoccupied with politics and deconstruction and they don't deeply interest me. But that's the case in most cultures. We have our own Language Poetry, which doesn't interest me either.
When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of deconstruction of this thing that we call jazz - of course it's different than what Americans do, because Europeans have a different history, a different sensibility and so forth - the nature of the creative process itself it's the same; but what comes from that creative process is different, because you have a different history, you have a different society, different language.
