The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Communism is fascism with a human face.
There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.
I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.