“Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever...” — Susan Sontag Quote

“Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.”

“The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.”

“AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.”

“I just love details; I love trying to make the reader smell what I was smelling at the time and see what I was seeing. Textures, too - all that kind of stuff is probably my strong suit as far as my writing goes, I would say.”

“There are at least two circumstances under which journalists have both a right and an obligation to publish details about a public person's private life: first, if the behaviors or events in question are illegal or immoral; and second, if it can be shown that the subject lied publicly about them.”