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" What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. "

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" Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. "

" A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. "

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" 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 what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. "

" Sanity is a cozy lie. "

" The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. "

" A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. "

" My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. "

" It is not the position, but the disposition. "

" AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. "

" Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. "

" Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. "

" The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. "

" 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. "

" The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. "

" I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. "

" Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. "

" The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. "

" The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. "

" I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. "

" In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. "

" It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. "

" Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. "

" 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. "

" Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. "

Science Fiction

" I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. "

" Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. "

" The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. "

" AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. "

" The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. "