I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

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