The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Yes, it seems that things like that should go on in London... It is better taste somehow that a man should be unfaithful to his wife away from home.

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.