Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

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

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.