The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive and literary, than to writing which is extremely academic or jargon-ridden.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

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

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.