Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.