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

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

To travel is to shop.

Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.

Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.