I want to be both pathetic and admirable, I want to be at the same time a child and an adult. Thereby I gamble, I take a risk: for it is always possible that the other will simply ask no question whatever about these unaccustomed glasses; that the other will see, in the fact, no sign.

Why is it better to last than to burn?

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

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

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.