To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.