The Writer, Like The Murderer,

A Lawsuit Is To Ordinary Life What War Is To Peacetime. In A Lawsuit, Everybody On The Other Side Is Bad. A Trial Transcript Is A Discourse In Malevolence.

Writing Cannot Be Done In A State Of Desirelessness.

If You Scratch A Great Photograph, You Find Two Things; A Painting And A Photograph.

All Analyses End Badly. Each 'termination' Leaves The Participants With The Taste Of Ashes In Their Mouths; Each Is Absurd; Each Is A Small, Pointless Death. Psychoanalysis Cannot Tolerate Happy Endings; It Casts Them Off The Way The Body's Immunological System Casts Off Transplanted Organs.

The Camera Is Simply Not The Supple And Powerful Instrument Of Description That The Pen Is.