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

A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.