Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

Every representation, even of an orgy, is a sublimation.