The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

False values begin with the worship of things.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling. The states described as apathy, moral or emotional anesthesia, are full of feelings; the feelings are rage and frustration.

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.