I embrace my solitude as a beautiful gift; I will become beautiful through it. - Susan Sontag

I suffer from a chronic nausea — after I’m with people. The awareness (after-awareness) of how programmed I am, how insincere, how frightened.

La sabiduría esencial de la imagen fotográfica afirma: «Ésa es la superficie. Ahora piensen — o más bien sientan, intuyan — qué hay más allá, cómo debe de ser la realidad si ésta es su apariencia».

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens — and real diseases are useful material. Epidemic diseases usually elicit a call to ban the entry of foreigners, immigrants. And xenophobic propaganda has always depicted immigrants as bearers of disease (in the late nineteenth century: cholera, yellow fever, typhoid fever, tuberculosis). … Such is the extraordinary potency and efficacy of the plague metaphor: it allows a disease to be regarded both as something incurred by vulnerable "others" and as (potentially) everyone's disease.