War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

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

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

A good book is an education of the heart.

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