I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

My skull is crammed with quotations.

A good book is an education of the heart.