“The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.”

“The city. The city as labyrinth. (No labyrinths in the country.) This, among other things, attracts me. The city is vertical. The country (+ suburbs) horizontal. I ‘set myself’ in the city… The sky, as seen in the city, is negative—where the buildings are not.”

“Camp involves a new, more complex relation to ‘the serious.’ One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.”

“One criticizes in others what one recognizes + despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.”