I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato’s Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.