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.

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.