As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.

Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.