Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

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.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.