She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be more compassionate. To orchestrate our mourning. And to celebrate ecstasy.

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.