I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.