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

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.