All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

A good book is an education of the heart.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

What we need is to use what we have.

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.