The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

My library is an archive of longings.