Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions

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.

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.