If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

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

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

Photographers are always imposing

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.