Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.