“The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.”

“It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.”

“The beautiful must be incongruous.”

“Thought involves a little charlatanism.”

“Hunger justifies the middle classes.”

“For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.”

“Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.”

“For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.”

“The present is always the best, even when its rough.”

“Think of the jazz improv artist responding to the musical banter among her fellow players onstage. Aside from whatever training they've done in advance, as soon as the curtain opens, they move into...”

“Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.”

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”