Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes reproduce exactly the position and the vision of the lens; it's these things that are taken for granted and it never occurs to anyone to think about them.

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.