Jacques Derrida - Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994

But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead?a dead parent, for example?can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.
Jacques Derrida
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

- Jacques Derrida - Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994