AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.