All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.