Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.