Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

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.

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.