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

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

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

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.