Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

Books always speak of other books.