Literature usually begets literature.

Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.

America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

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.

Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.