In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.