The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.