It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

To photograph is to confer importance.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .