The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.

The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

My poems mean what people take them to mean.