He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Writing is a mysterious activity.
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
Life is not about significant details illuminated in a flash fixed forever. Photographs are.
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear endearing touching precious. At least the past is safe-though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in t...
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is wh...
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.
Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling traditions; litanies to family values are at the center of every po...
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.
Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
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