Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.