The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.

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

What we need is to use what we have.