The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

Most of my reading is rereading.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.