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.

The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.

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

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not.

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

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.