The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.