Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

The really important thing is not to reject anything.

That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.