The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

I can't say I know how to change the society, but I share the feeling that this society is full of technology which depersonalizes people, which seems to drain a sense of reality from our lives. It's full of a lot of other things too.

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.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!