I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.

Since nothing is free, to each his price.

The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.