The only interesting ideas are heresies

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.