“Nakedness was dangerous to the social order, she thought, because it revealed too much reality.”

“One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love—any love—reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.”

“[She] is not permitted to reveal as much as she is suffered to know.”
Nec tantum prodere vati quantum scire licet.

“She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.”

“It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.”

“Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.”

“She had always liked this image of herself as too much trouble, as different, and she sometimes thought of it as a carapace that kept her safe.”

“The dominant social thought shapes the institutionalized order of society… and the malfunctioning of established institutions in turn alters social thought.”

“We should protect her privacy and not reveal too much of that.”

“I once had to dispense with a literary agent because she drank too much. She was very surprised but I pointed out to her, quite logically I thought, that one of us had to be sober and it certainly wan't going to be me.”