In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

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.

What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Communism is fascism with a human face.