As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.

In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

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.