The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things to go on that you don't want other people to know about, when all is said and done. But the things I don't want other people to know about are not my sex life.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

What you are will make you what you will become.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.