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

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

... 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.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.