No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

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.

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.