whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

I love to read the way people love to watch television.

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.