Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

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

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.