Courage is morally neutral.

The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt to be shrunk, hollowed out, perishable, remote. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.