God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. – Francis Bacon
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon
Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude. – Jean Baudrillard