My Idea Of A Writer:

Cancer Patients Are Lied To, Not Just Because The Disease Is (or Is Thought To Be) A Death Sentence, But Because It Is Felt To Be Obscene - In The Original Meaning Of That Word: Ill-omened, Abominable, Repugnant To The Senses.

To Camp Is A Mode Of Seduction... Behind The 'straight' Public Sense In Which Something Can Be Taken, One Has Found A Private Zany Experience Of The Thing.

The Photographer Both Loots And Preserves, Denounces And Consecrates.

Real Art Has The Capacity To Make Us Nervous.

I Envy Paranoids; They Actually Feel People Are Paying Attention To Them.