The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

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

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.

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.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.