The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.