Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament.

You can always be quoted.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.