There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not.

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.