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

My ignorance is not charming.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.