Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''

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

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism