Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

Communism is fascism with a human face.