Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even.

Shouting has never made me understand anything.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.