All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

Writing is a mysterious activity.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.