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

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

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

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.