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.

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

False values begin with the worship of things.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.