I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.