My library is an archive of longings.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even.

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.