Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

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.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.