Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

Art is seduction, not rape.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.