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

Literature usually begets literature.

Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.