The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.