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

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.