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

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

Most of my reading is rereading.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

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

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.