Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted.

Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?

Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

Those boobs of yours are ubiquitous - like God!

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.