Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

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.

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.