...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

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

The only interesting ideas are heresies