Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.

The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.

Eating is never so simple as hunger.