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

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

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

Everything has changed and nothing is changed.

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.

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.