The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

I am I plus my circumstances.

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.

"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.