Dimitar Pizhev

“(…) Il potere non è più infatti clerico-fascista, non è più repressivo. Non possiamo più usare contro di esso gli argomenti – a cui eravamo tanto abituati e quasi affezionati – che tanto abbiamo adoperato contro il potere clerico-fascista, contro il potere repressivo. Il nuovo potere consumistico e permissivo si è valso proprio delle nostre conquiste mentali di laici, di illuministi, di razionalisti, per costruire la propria impalcatura di falso laicismo, di falso illuminismo, di falsa razionalità. (…) Ha portato al limite massimo la sua unica possibile sacralità: la sacralità del consumo come rito, e, naturalmente, della merce come feticcio.”
― Pier Paolo Pasolini

“To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste. it's easy to disgust someone; I could make a ninety-minute film of people getting their limbs hacked off, but this would only be bad bad taste and not very stylish or original. To understand bad taste one must have very good taste. Good bad taste can be creatively nauseating but must, at the same time, appeal to the especially twisted sense of humor, which is anything but universal.”
― John Waters

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
― Raymond Carver

“Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On one level this truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. The language of my books has shaped me as a man. There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.”
― Don DeLillo, Mao II