Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.

Literature usually begets literature.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.