It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

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).

His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body - any change is for the worse. And if there is to be change, then he wants it to happen quickly, so it does not use up too much of the time remaining to him.

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

I want to save my soul, that timid wind.

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.