Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things. ... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?

Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.

All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.

the sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

... we do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it through an emotion charged with all that has since happened to us.