[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.

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

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories.

The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque.