History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

I worry about images. Images are what things mean.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.