Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

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.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.