That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

To choose not to choose is still to act.

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.