What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being able to get what one wants, or even name it properly (or consistently) to oneself — these can be, it is felt they ought to be, masked by friendliness, or the most scrupulous manipulation.

I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.