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.

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

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments.

It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.