The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.

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