I like watching people, but I don’t like talking to them, dealing with them, pleasing them, or offending them. - Susan Sontag

What the overemphasis on the idea of content entails is the perennial, never consummated project of interpretation. And, conversely, it is the habit of approaching works of art in order to interpret them that sustains the fancy that there really is such a thing as the content of a work of art.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

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 body — and that there are bodies in the world.