"If I fear anything, I fear the atmosphere of the war, the power which it gives to all the things I hate — the newspap…"

"Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying."

"It seems to me that the real clue to your sex orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual f…"

"At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All of…"

"The images which remained in the memory are not in themselves terrible or rigorous: they are of boot-lockers, wooden …"

"I believe the Gita to be one of the major religious documents of the world. If its teachings did not seem to me to ag…"

"'The whole beauty of the Film is that it has a certain fixed speed. The way you see it is mechanically conditioned. I…"

"'Let me tell you something,' he began, as he dropped my manuscript casually into the waste-paper-basket. 'The Film is…"

"'All these people,' Bergmann continued, 'will be dead. All of them. . . . No, there is one—' He pointed to a fat, ino…"

"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."