Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even.

We are ruled by quotations.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.