Most of my reading is rereading.

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.