We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.