Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.

There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.