A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

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

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.