Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.