“It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar.”

“I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.”

“The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.”

“In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.”

“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known completely, nor would we want to know every fact about an individual. Similarly, no life is ever lived according to aesthetic proportions. The "plot" of a biography is superficially based on the birth, life and death of the subject; "character," in the vision of the author. Both are as much creations of the biographer, as they are of a novelist. We content ourselves with "authorized fictions.”

“All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.”