Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I would like to concentrate on work which is more resistant to that procedure, as I think fiction is.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images — as, according to Proust, most ambitious of voluntary prisoners, one can't possess the present but one can possessthe past.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.