Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament.

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.