Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

To photograph is to confer importance.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

Art is a form of consciousness.