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

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

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

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.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Love dies because its birth was an error.