Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

The images of things are not the things in themselves.

My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.