In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

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).

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.