I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but those whose work I feel has been neglected.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

What we need is to use what we have.