There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.

In literature, you know only what you imagine

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.