One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.

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

Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up