Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

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

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

Most of my reading is rereading.

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