I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.