Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

I didn't think of myself as importing, I thought it was more interesting to write about things people didn't know about than what they did. When I became aware that I was in fact "importing", I stopped doing it.

I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.