A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Everything has changed and nothing is changed.

A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment.

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.