Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.

And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.