The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.

To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.