Desire has no history.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.