Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

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

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .