Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in the historical rise of individualism. As the lovely word "household" suggests, the couple and the family would be the last bastion of primitive communism in liberal society. The sexual revolution was to destroy these intermediary communities, the last to separate the individual from the market. The destruction continues to this day.

Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.