The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.