A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.