...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

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.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.