All Of Us Admire People We Don't

I Beg You To Believe That Life Is Not A Process, It's A Drama

If God Is Dead, Somebody Is Going To Have To Take His Place. It Will Be Megalomania Or Erotomania, The Drive For Power Or The Drive For Pleasure, The Clenched Fist Or The Phallus, Hitler Or Hugh Hefner.

In The Cycle Of A Great Civilization, The Artist Begins As Priest, And Ends As A Clown Or Buffoon.

I Doubt Whether The Revolution Has, In Essentials, Changed Russia At All. Reading Gogol, Or Dostoevsky For That Matter, One Realizes How Completely The Soviet Regime Has Fallen Back On To, And Perhaps Invigorated, The Old Russia. Certainly There Is Much More Of Gogol And Dostoievsky In The Regime Than There Is Of Marx.

Sex Is The Ersatz Or Substitute Religion Of The 20th Century.