Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

To travel is to shop.

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

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

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.

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