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

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

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

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.