I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.