Status Updates From Dark Reflections (Dover Lit...

heartbreaking

'But, like many less-adventurous folk, he had about decided that such intermittent pleasure was all he could expect under the burden of his perversion.'

'But what were any of them doing in this brave, new, and so much more convenient world, where you hardly had to speak to a soul?'

'The most important thing about the modernist tradition – I’m not even starting in on the problems of post-modernism – and by modernism I mean from the revolution of 1848 on, the last hundred and fifty-six years, is that art has to be new.'

'... I realized for the first time that critics were not the people whom, necessarily, you trust.'

'...somehow pre-Stonewall fear of discovery had been replaced by a post-Stonewall sense of vulgarity in all this public discussion of what, after all, surely should be private.'

Such a Delany question:

'Once Arnold had wondered how to pronounce parentheses. Years ago he'd given up and now said them as if the first were a hyphen and the second not there.'