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

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

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

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.