Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

I believe in permanent revolution.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.