What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

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

A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.