There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.