"I was, I am gifted for this state of euphoric coiling proper to the infant, for this state which is not a social state, which lasts nine months intra-uterine and then eighteen months atmospheric. To say that we are beings of language, as society does, is profoundly false. And not to be gifted with language is to respond to something more original. We are not speaking beings, we become speaking beings." Pascal Quignard Interview from Magazine Lire, 09/2002