The white race is the cancer of human history.

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.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.