I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures