Language is a Skin | Roland Barthes, 1977

"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. 

It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. 

My language trembles with desire."

Roland Barthes, "Talking," in A Lover's Discourse, 1977 

Also:

Language is never innocent / Writing is the destruction of every voice | Roland Barthes, 1915-80