What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

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.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.

My ignorance is not charming.