What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

Literature usually begets literature.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

To us, the difference between the #‎ photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #‎ photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.