The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.