I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

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

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.