An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.