Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.