“The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.”

“Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.”

“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”

“I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.”

“Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.”

“Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world.”

“I have not reneged on a promise. I have changed my mind.”