When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

The cancer of time is eating us away

I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.