"...writing has characteristics that can't be decided within these oppositions. It disrupts the oppositions. It plays across good and bad, curative and injurious. There is neither simply cure not simply poison. The characteristics of writing inhabit 'interior' memory while also being 'external'. 'Living' speech shares in the characteristics of 'dead' writing. Writing refuses to settle down as the mere 'appearance' of 'true' knowledge."

- Jacques Derrida