Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

My ignorance is not charming.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

Shouting has never made me understand anything.

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself - so that something else can be brought into the world, the photograph.