Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.

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.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.