Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.