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

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.