The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

My library is an archive of longings.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.