The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.