Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.