Art is seduction, not rape.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

I didn't think of myself as importing, I thought it was more interesting to write about things people didn't know about than what they did. When I became aware that I was in fact "importing", I stopped doing it.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.