Literature usually begets literature.
The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
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
It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.
I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.