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

Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

My library is an archive of longings.

Literature usually begets literature.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.