Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.