One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

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

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

My library is an archive of longings.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.