Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

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