I didn't think of myself as importing, I thought it was more interesting to write about things people didn't know about than what they did. When I became aware that I was in fact "importing", I stopped doing it.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

Shouting has never made me understand anything.

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.

Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.