Now, it is cancer's turn to be the disease that doesn't knock before it enters.

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is, a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene— in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

Style is the principle of decision in a work of art.

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

Sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication, through scruple, but then again it may not.

The aesthetic view of the world is extremely hospitable to many of the uncivilized ideas and dissociated yearnings.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms, the animation, the fits.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms the animation, the fits.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything