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What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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

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

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

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

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

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.

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

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

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