Tearing things apart (is) a powerful aspect of human nature.

“Is this, Miriam wonders, what they call the march of history? And even if she doesn't fully understand, it doesn't mean she can't appreciate…

— Peter Orner

Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump.…

— Martha Beck

It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller…

— Claudio Magris

“humanity suffers terribly from the demons it has created over lengths of time. we learn from nothing that we do. we create religions, heritage,…

— Jeffrey Fischer

Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would…

— Danny Elfman

“An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not able to…

— Erik Pevernagie

“It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of terrain.” It also goes without saying…

— Jacques Derrida

You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

— Mason Cooley

“King Kranlin became dizzily aware that day was now indiscernible from night, that selfness was essentially the same as otherness, that all things had…

— Douglas Hackle

“Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it would be time, after the fact, to recognize;…

— Jacques Derrida

“I guess that’s supposed to be deconstruction’s original program, right? People have been under some sort of metaphysical anesthesia, so you dismantle the metaphysics’…

— David Foster Wallace

“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in…

— Erik Pevernagie

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result…

— Jonathan Miller

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the…

— Jay Mohr