False values begin with the worship of things.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.

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

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.