Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.

Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.