My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.