In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. ... The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it.

You can always be quoted.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.