Jean Baudrillard

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Style has replaced elegance. Before, I believed that style is something a person embodied. But now it's so easy to buy good style if you have the money.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don't think that's my style.