It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

I love to read the way people love to watch television.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.