Art is seduction, not rape.

Communism is fascism with a human face.

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

A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.

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.

Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.

Art is a form of consciousness.