AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

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

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.