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

The white race is the cancer of human history.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.