The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
My ignorance is not charming.
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.
No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.