Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Communism is fascism with a human face.

Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the context in which it is seen: thus Smith's Minamata photographs will seem different on a contact sheet, in a gallery, in a political demonstration, in a police file, in a photographic magazine, in a book, on a living-room wall. Each o these situations suggest a different use for the photographs but none can secure their meaning.

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.