Death is terrifying and beautiful, a final thing we can all do together.

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is what shows us at our most human.

The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

I'm a white guy listening to the Cure and thinking about Pynchon influences.

Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.

If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo.

Live and let live.

I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever