A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think it has something to do with the fact that at last writing, which has been such an old-fashioned, artisanal activity, even on a typewriter, has now entered the central domain of modern experience which is that of making copies, being involved in the world of duplicates and machine-mediated activities.

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.