It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all