I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.