The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed.

God, living is enormous!

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

To travel is to shop.