All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.