The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.

Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.