Communism is fascism with a human face.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

To photograph is to confer importance.

In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.

Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.

In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I would like to concentrate on work which is more resistant to that procedure, as I think fiction is.