Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

All publicity works upon anxiety.

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

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen.... But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.