Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

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

Photographers are always imposing

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.