What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.

…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.

The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so).

Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.

To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.