Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.