All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

I'm more cautious about what I write.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.