It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

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.

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.