The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.