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.

Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.

To the militant, identity is everything.

I want to save my soul, that timid wind.