We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.