How boring just to be a body.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.