Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.