Everything's A Scandal. Dying's A Scandal. But

You Gave Yourself Away, Word By Word, Every Time You Opened Your Trap To Speak.

Sitting For A Picture Is Morbid Business. A Portrait Doesn't Begin To Mean Anything Until The Subject Is Dead. This Is The Whole Point. We're Doing This To Create A Kind Of Sentimental Past For People In Decades To Come. It's Their Past, Their History We're Inventing Here. And It's Not How I Look Now That Matters. It's How I'll Look In Twenty-five Years As Clothing And Faces Change, As Photographs Change. The Deeper I Pass Into Death, The More Powerful My Picture Becomes. Isn't This Why Picture-taking Is So Ceremonial? It's Like A Wake. And I'm The Actor Made Up For The Laying-out.

Talent Is More Erotic When It's Wasted.

What Terrorists Gain, Novelists Lose.

I Was Never Either Pro-culture Or Counter-culture. I Was In A Kind Of Middle State.