Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

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

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.