I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.

Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.