Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

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

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

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.