For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form.

The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.