The only interesting ideas are heresies

It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.

The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.

In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.