... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.