Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.