University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.