A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

Desire has no history.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.