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.

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.

I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive and literary, than to writing which is extremely academic or jargon-ridden.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.