The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.

Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.