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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Do we mean love, when we say love?

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form – or else it is not art.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.