My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.