Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen to another just for the pleasure of it. I try out new ones. I have far too many pens - I don't know what to do with all of them! And yet, as soon as I see a new one, I start craving it. I cannot keep myself from buying them.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.

...language is never innocent.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this image which produces Death while trying to preserve life. Contemporary with the withdrawal of rites, Photography may correspond to the intrusion, in our modern society, of an asymbolic Death, outside of religion, outside of ritual, a kind of abrupt dive into literal Death.