Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

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

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.