Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.On Photography

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

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

[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement -- not incitement.

Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.