The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.

The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute

Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

To the militant, identity is everything.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.