I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.

Desire has no history.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.