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

Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories.

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.

I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references.