Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.