'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.