The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

Communism is fascism with a human face.

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.