Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.