The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

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

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.