 AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. |
| The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. |
| The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. |
| Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. |
| Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. |
| Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. |
| To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. |
| Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. |
| Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. |
| Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. |
| Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. |
| "Camp" is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated. |
| I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. |
| The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. |
| A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. |
| It is not the position, but the disposition. |
| Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals. |
| I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. |
| I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. |
