My skull is crammed with quotations.

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.

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.