The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

My library is an archive of longings.

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.