One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

We are ruled by quotations.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

To the militant, identity is everything.

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

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.