The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

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.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy