Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Desire has no history.

The white race is the cancer of human history.