It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

You can always be quoted.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.