You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.