Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a form of intellectual control, which presents us with the image of unrealities in order that we should understand and feel distanced from them. In imagination we dominate; in fantasy, we are dominated.

In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next