Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.