Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.