Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.