Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

My library is an archive of longings.

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.