One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself - so that something else can be brought into the world, the photograph.

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

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.

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.