In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

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.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.