Only the truly depraved are religious. Their salvation is pornography, but they are damned, and, with the pride of the damned, they resist help from below.

Classical Western ballet is one of the few remaining forms of socially sanctioned child abuse.

If it should come to pass that strange and terrifying faces suddenly appear in your works, as if hell beings were emerging one by one from the aether of your canvas, please continue.

I find my delight in your words; you find yours in my silence.

Now that you see the threads emerging from your fingertips, are you inspired to weave?

There is nothing banal about this country except its people. I take pleasure in banality, the conversations, the routines, and so on. It has its own murmuring rhythm. I am no saint or any other kind of exhibitionist. What I know is told to you by others.

Because he was not expecting trouble, trouble came to him. After the denouement, he had no strength to ask the intruder to leave; and trouble remained in his house thereafter. In due course, he and his nemesis struck a truce of sorts, which became a grudging mutual respect, and then, finally, an alliance and a firm friendship. From time to time, his companion left the house, usually at night, to visit the richly deserving.