Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.