Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

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?

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

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

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

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.