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.

My library is an archive of longings.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

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

The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

Writing is a mysterious activity.