“In the end one loves one’s desire and not what is desired.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §175.

Robert De Niro, Giorgio Armani and Martin Scorsese.

Sophia Loren looking at herself in the mirror at the Hotel Excelsior, Venice, 1955.

My metaphors are my wounds

Jacques Callot, The Death of Judas ca. 1634-35

Safety standards in 1965.

Françoise Hardy, 1967

Psychology is the hero’s tomb.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

— Aldous Huxley

“Hearing something new is embarrassing and difficult for the ear. Foreign music we do not hear well, but with another language we try involuntarily to form the sounds we hear into words that sound more familiar and more like home to us.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §192 (edited excerpt).