To the militant, identity is everything.

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

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in my head and I can write it down. But once something is really under way, I don't want to do anything else. I don't go out, much of the time I forget to eat, I sleep very little. It's a very undisciplined way of working and makes me not very prolific. But I'm too interested in many other things.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.