I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.