Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.

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.

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.