Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Desire creates its own object.