Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

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

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

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

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.