This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.

It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.

You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra in the production.

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.