Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

A good book is an education of the heart.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque.