That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.