I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real. ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it.

My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .