The longing to touch / be touched. I feel gratitude when I touch someone — as well as affection, etc. The person has allowed me proof that I have a b… - Susan Sontag

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

In some respects the use of sexual obsessions as a subject for literature resembles the use of a literary subject whose validity for fewer people would contest: religious obsessions. So compared, the familiar fact of pornography’s definite, aggressive impact upon its readers looks somewhat different. Its celebrated intention of sexually stimulating readers is really a species of proselytizing. Pornography that is serious literature aims to “excite” in the same way that books which render an extreme form of religious experience aim to “convert.”

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