When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

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

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

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.

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

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past