Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addition will be, or where it will be put. At any point, I can c…

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious a…