It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish.

Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and specialise, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment. The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.