A good book is an education of the heart.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I would like to concentrate on work which is more resistant to that procedure, as I think fiction is.

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.