I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

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

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become art, when it is part of the past. In this normative sense, a 'contemporary' work of art would be a contradiction - except so far as we can, in the present, assimilate the present to the past.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.