That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.

On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.