It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

My skull is crammed with quotations.

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

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.