Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.

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

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

To the militant, identity is everything.