Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think it has something to do with the fact that at last writing, which has been such an old-fashioned, artisanal activity, even on a typewriter, has now entered the central domain of modern experience which is that of making copies, being involved in the world of duplicates and machine-mediated activities.

The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not.

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

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.