If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.