There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.