Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

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

The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

Shouting has never made me understand anything.

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties