Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when suddenly God saw me. I felt His gaze inside my head and on my hands....I flew into a rage against so crude an indiscretion, I blasphemed....He never looked at me again....I had the more difficulty getting rid of Him the Holy Ghost in that He had installed Himself at the back of my head....I collared the Holy Ghost in the cellar and threw Him out.