Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.

To photograph is to confer importance.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

Art is seduction, not rape.