The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no'.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything.