Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.