When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references.

American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism

How boring just to be a body.

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.